Video shot by a passenger shows crews trying to get the door open. The ABC affiliated station in Denver says the United Airlines flight landed there around 7:30 local time Wednesday night.
It took off from Washington D.C.
They report the passenger eventually got out safely.
United was trying to get the plane back in the air promptly.
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